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N.Y. Times replaces Pogue with Manjoo

By HADAS GOLD

01/17/2014 09:32 AM EST

The New York Times has found its David Pogue replacement.

After just a few months at The Wall Street Journal, Farhad Manjoo is joining the Times as their State of the Art columnist, Times Business Editor Dean Murphy announced on Twitter Thursday evening. Re/Code first broke the news Thursday afternoon.

The New York Times welcomes Farhad Manjoo as our new State of the Art columnist. He's joining our dynamic tech team. Great stuff to come!

Pogue left the Times as its longtime personal technology columnist to help Yahoo launch a new tech site in October. In comments posted to LinkedIn, Manjoo, who until September was at Slate, said he had dreamed of having Pogue's job.

"I've been reading the Times since I was a teenager (I grew up in California), and, like a lot of people in this business, I've long idolized the paper. Pogue's job, in particular, is one I've thought about doing forever," Manjoo wrote.

Manjoo also noted his short time at the Wall Street Journal and said it says nothing about the people or how much he enjoyed his job there.

"The fact that I spent like four seconds at the WSJ before departing to a rival raises all kinds of assumptions — mainly about my own character, granted, but also regarding the WSJ," Manjoo wrote. "And I want to nip those in the bud. Over the last few months, I’ve gotten a chance to work with some of the best reporters and editors anywhere."

In a memo to Times staff, Murphy said Manjoo will "push 'State of the Art' beyond traditional reviews to examine the tech industry more broadly and the role technology plays across the board — what he calls 'tech’s intrusion into society.'"